Jemma Appleby

Jemma’s body of recent drawings amplify each environments simplicity and purity with an aim of clarification. These clean minimal spaces offer little information yet have an authority to describe a magnitude. The non-narrative architectural spaces make enquiries of the memory, knowledge and experience of human space.

Wright Series

Jemma Appleby’s Wright series is an investigation into the complex relationship between architecture and landscape.

The forest landscape is used as a haven for solitude and calmness, where the slightest change can result in phenomenological moments which twist the already sublime environment into moments of questioning.

As with the forest, architecture has been a focus in the work, referencing utopias and enriched futures. Architectural forms have been used to explore the themes of shelter and protection by generating structures of physical impossibility. The structures integrated into the landscape are based on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian houses. Initially they give the illusion of a building offering refuge, however they are no more than geometric planes creating a facade. It is our desire to be protected in an unknown environment which allows the audience to believe these structures are complete dwellings.

Taking Wright’s Usonian houses and laying them in majestic and perhaps romantic forestscapes, where they do not naturally belong, gives them an isolated grandeur. In an environment that causes style and design to be redundant, they become heroic and absurd. Yet it is the specific design features of the Usonian house; the cantilevered flat roof, the large glass doors and the wooden cladding, which contrast with the coniferous forest to create a sublime moment.

Elements of the structure are heightened in order to allow the landscape to become the architecture in a harmony of imbalance. They have become entwined and play with the perception of reality and illusion by creating a relationship between encounter of the natural world and invention.

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Artist Interview: Jemma Appleby

Jemma’s work focuses on the relationship between architecture and landscape. She explores this relationship by integrating architectural structures, such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian houses and Ron Arad’s design museum, into her landscapes bringing together links between the natural world …